On the occasion of Women’s Day, Ben Thanh Tourist in HCMC has launched tours for all women to celebrate the special holiday.
Because International Women’s Day is next Monday, a working day, the tour operator is arranging one and two-day tours suitable during this weekend or on Monday.
Tourists walk on the beach to [...]
Travel firms all say they will continue quoting low fees to attract domestic travelers. Home-grown tourists were the main prop of the tourism industry in the aftermath of the world financial crisis, reports VietNamNet.
Several southern firms have announced a 35-40 percent tour fee decrease. A five day tour of central Vietnam (Da Nang – [...]
Vietnam Airlines announced Wednesday it would open a direct route between Hanoi and Myanmar’s Yangon on March 2, operating four flights a week with Fokker 70 aircraft.
Vietnam Airlines aircraft in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport, where the carrier will launch Myanmar service on March 2, 2010 (Photo: SGGP)
The national carrier said it would fly [...]
AirAsia, a major low-cost airline in Asia, said it has purchased a 30 percent stake in VietJet Aviation of Vietnam to establish a budget carrier based in the country.
AirAsia aircraft at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi (Photo: VNE)
AirAsia’s Vietnam representative office sent out a statement Thursday saying that the new carrier will be called [...]
With overseas trips increasingly popular for Tet holidays, air carriers have announced that tickets are running out and as a result – fees are high.
Travel firms have confirmed that despite the economic downturn and high prices, Vietnamese people are still planning to travel abroad this Tet in large numbers. In fact, the number of [...]
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is scheduled to receive 16 Airbus A321 aircraft in 2010 to expand its fleet of 58 planes.
The corporation has transported about 9.3 million passengers this year, including more than six million on domestic routes, increasing by 16% on the year before.
The airline plans to open new routes to Northeast [...]
The Civil Aviation Administration said it would give Indochina Airlines, the country’s only private carrier, a chance to resume services in mid-January after it failed to do so late last year.
Vo Huy Cuong, head of the administration’s Aviation Transport Department, said that although the administration had warned that it would revoke Indochina’s license if [...]
Travelling by air from place to place can be a convenient way to explore the country on a tight schedule, but it removes travellers away from one of the more interesting parts of the country.
Snapshot: The main tower of Poklong Garai Temple, one of the most beautiful and best preserved Cham temples in the country, [...]
Tourism, cultural and sports activities will kick off National Tourism Year 2010 in Ha Noi beginning this month.
“The National Tourism Year is the country’s important event to promote national tourism sector to international countries,” Pham Quang Long, director of the Ha Noi Culture, Tourism and Sports Department, said.
The National Tourism Year, themed Thang Long-Ha Noi, [...]
Though Vietnam’s internal aviation market is always described as having ‘great potential,’ it is not so easy for airlines to enter that market, as the case of Indochina Airlines demonstrates.
A courageous airline
At a press conference late in 2008 announcing Indochina Airlines’ first commercial flights, serving Hanoi-HCMC and HCMC-Danang, General Director Ha Dung cheerfully revealed plans [...]
